λ A GEORGE IV WEST COUNTRY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

λ A GEORGE IV WEST COUNTRY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY BUTTELD

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with Moses and his brother, Aaron, the High Priest, his ritual garments detailed with the Breastplate of Judgement, resting on the ephod and the hem with belles, pomegranates and tassels, flanking a hymn by Isaac Watts, signed and dated 'Mary Butteld Ended this sampler in the Fourteenth year of her Age June 26 1820' and also inscribed 'Taught by Mary Picket In North Tawton', in a glazed rosewood frame

28 x 25.8cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.261 for a discussion of this sampler.